RE: Some concerns about steemit.
That's an interesting perspective! Thanks for sharing.
I think though, a key factor here is that.. People are coming to steemit with an expectation of something. Whether right or wrong, and then they see how hard it is and they see people making thousands of dollars posting like pictures of their food and simple status updates and.. They get turned off. Many won't participate because of that reason in a sense that they feel it's corrupt and unfair, in a different way than when they watch a drama show on TV they are sort of expecting drama.
But still a fair point, maybe some of the drama on here isn't something to be so concerned about. Maybe it's just drama and in some ways it could actually help by bringing more attention? Who knows.. Will consider it though! Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I don't know if you have ever run across them but @mudcat36, and @davemccoy have started a newbieresteem projsect where we try to help mentor brand spanking new users. We try to show them how to make a better post, how to interact, and how to comment, along with a few methods of helping users that have less than 30 days on steemit. So we are trying to mitigate some of that perception about steemit.
No I don't recognize those names, I'll check out their pages. And.. that's cool to hear! That sounds like a good effort I could support. Cool beans.
I don't have a lot of time to help, but I did commit to once a week. Already helped my first person out, with what I thought was good solid advice. The person I tried to help @dointa from romania here is my post and in the remarks my comments to her/him about posting. It will give somewhat of an Idea of what they hope to do.